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We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).


John Connolly

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ANGELA CONNOLLY We asked him to shoot us a number that it would take to stay in Polk County. This is the number we c...
ANGELA CONNOLLY He has to come in at target. He's got to figure out how to do that.
ANGELA CONNOLLY I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but yo...
BILLY CONNOLLY There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clea...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLY Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d...
CYRIL CONNOLLY A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
CYRIL CONNOLLY I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if you raise a million pounds ...
BILLY CONNOLLY I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.
BILLY CONNOLLY I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life...
BILLY CONNOLLY There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointe...
BILLY CONNOLLY Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
BILLY CONNOLLY The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterw...
BILLY CONNOLLY It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them ...
BILLY CONNOLLY “So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a ...
BILLY CONNOLLY Roses are red,Violets are blue,I'm a schizophrenic,and so am I.
BILLY CONNOLLY I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it m...
BILLY CONNOLLY Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
BILLY CONNOLLY If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit th...
JAMES CONNOLLY I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s...
BILLY CONNOLLY There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
KEVIN CONNOLLY As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of l...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
CYRIL CONNOLLY “So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?”
BILLY CONNOLLY A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY